BLOCS: A Smart Book-Locating System Based on RFID in Libraries

Author

Sue, Kuen-Liang ; Lo, Yi-Min

Author_Institution

Nat. Central Univ., Taoyuan

fYear

2007

fDate

9-11 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Recently, the wireless location system become an important issue. However, the previous location mechanisms were seldom proposed for locating applications in library. In this paper, we present a smart Book-LOCating System called BLOCS with two location modes using RFID technology -single book mode and book list mode. The single book mode provides users to find the bookshelf containing the desired book which was misplaced. The book list mode offers a corresponding list of the bookshelves and the misplaced books regularly for a librarian to localize all misplaced books in the wrong bookshelves. The simulation results show that the locating accuracies of the single book mode and the book list mode are more than 90% and 85%, respectively.

Keywords

library automation; radiocommunication; radiofrequency identification; BLOCS system; Book-LOCating System; RFID technology; book finding; libraries; wireless location system; Batteries; Books; Costs; Global Positioning System; Humans; Information management; Libraries; RFID tags; Radiofrequency identification; Transceivers; RFID; location system; sensing network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Service Systems and Service Management, 2007 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0885-7

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0885-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSSSM.2007.4280193

Filename

4280193